University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 244

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1462

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 244

Title:

Il Genesi.

Author:

Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556

Pietro Aretino WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1500 and 1550]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 109 leaves : paper ; 211 x 136 (154 x 86) mm bound to 215 x 137 mm

Note:

Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch and from description pasted inside upper cover.
Binding pulling loose in places; spine breaking between ff. 36-37. Cover splitting, cracking and peeling at spine and at edges.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch) and from description pasted inside upper cover; see also f. 1r, 2r and 3r.
Spine title: Prefatio nel Genesi.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 109; [1-109]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a 16th-century humanistic script by a single hand, allegedly in the autograph of Pietro Aretino (seller's description, inside upper cover).
Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Some oxidation of ink in places, occasionally making the text hard to read.
Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Martin Breslauer, cat. 67 (1949), no. 7.
Appears in Weiss cat. 1 (1926), no. 3.
Formerly owned by Vicentius Marini (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Italian literature

Early works

Italian poetry

Bible. Genesis

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808543503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3rx93f4j/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania